what to do with a brother in law that keeps asking

United States
September 26, 2007 5:48am CST
every time my brother in law comes over he asks if we have this or have that that he could barrow and then he never brings the stuff back. Well he showed up yesterday and asked to barrow our extra tv and I told him that when he returns all the other stuff he barrowed he could barrow the tv for 1 week. He clams that he doesn't have the things anymore and that they got lost in the move. What move you live in the shelter I said. I am thinking that he comes over to get the stuff just to sell for drug money. My husband is a sucker to this fact but I have seen the light. This man is a begger and a free loader of the highest point. He finaaly got a job in which he works 2 days a week just so he can stay on welfare in which he brought that up too. He is getting cut off from welfare and he needs to move out of the shelter for 2 weeks then can go back. What?? If I had the chance to better myself then I would do it without barrowing things to sell for drugs or alchol for me and my so called buddies. He really needs to get his act together. But I did the tough love on this one as the tv was my grandson's that I had bought for his third birthday last July so he could watch his DVD's on and that is not leaving my home for no reason. Was I too harch as my husband says? hugs
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@fredgame (1260)
• China
26 Sep 07
i think you did right for that, if he can afford to always beg and sell, then you should never give out any item to him again. if not you'd be encouraging him to keep up with his terrible habit. he's a man and he should fight his odds to fit in the generation of acquisition of basic necessities.
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• United States
26 Sep 07
thanks for the possitive note. My husband would give him everything we had just to get rid of him from the house but not this time I got rid of him without giving him a thing. hugs